"a total of 70 titles, with a piano trio composed of local musicians. By the late 1940s, Grappelli's style of violin swing was out of fashion, and Django, no longer performing regularly, had become interested in playing modern jazz inspired by American bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Django pursued modern jazz until his death in 1953, while Grappelli played and recorded mainstream swing music throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he was active on the music scene. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of European guitarists continued to play acoustic jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt,"
"their newly formed Hot Club, in Paris. It became the most accomplished and innovative European jazz group of the period. Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput also played on guitar, and Louis Vola was on bass. The Quintette was one of the few well-known jazz ensembles composed only of stringed instruments. In Paris on 14 March 1933, Reinhardt recorded two takes each of ""Parce-que je vous aime"" and ""Si, j'aime Suzy"", vocal numbers with lots of guitar fills and guitar support. He used three guitarists along with an accordion lead, violin, and bass. In August 1934, he made other recordings"
"early years of the Quintette, recording and performing with French pop artists such as Jean Sablon, Le Petit Mirsha, and Nane Cholet, and with jazz artists such as Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Rex Stewart, Larry Adler, Alix Combelle, and André Ekyan. Between 1934 and 1948, the Quintette du Hot Club de France recorded more than 130 titles in the studio for the Decca, Swing, HMV, Ultraphone, and Odeon labels. A series of European tours were very successful, with the group enjoying particular popularity in the UK. Several bassists and rhythm guitarists rotated in and out of the group, with Django"
"playing dance music with a small orchestra at the Hôtel Claridge in Paris during the summer of 1934. According to an account in a book by Michael Dregni, Grappelli played a chorus, then Reinhardt began to improvise. Sometimes they were accompanied on double bass by Louis Vola, the band's leader, and on rhythm guitar by Reinhardt's brother Joseph. This was the core of Reinardt's band. The addition of Roger Chaput on rhythm guitar made it the Quintette du Hot Club de France. This classic lineup, with occasional changes in membership on double bass and rhythm guitar, entered the recording studio"
"largely ignored by the jazz press and with few opportunities to record or tour. Musicians such as Baro and Matelo Ferret (both of whom were sometime-members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France), Etienne Patotte Bousquet, and Tchan Tchou Vidal kept the sound of the Quintette alive, often mixing musette waltzes and traditional tunes with the American popular songs and original compositions favored by Django and Grappelli. In 1973, British guitarist Diz Disley helped persuade Grappelli to return to performing with an all-strings jazz group inspired by the Quintette du Hot Club de France, and Grappelli toured and recorded"
"of the Cave du Hot Club de France at 9 rue Pavee in 1969. Before 1930, the Quintette du Hot Club de France could be heard at the Casanova Club on Rue Fromentin. The Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris at 78 rue Cardinet, at boulevard Malesherbes, was used by the Hot Club de France for many of its concerts from the 1930s to 1954, beginning with the first performance by the Quintette du Hot Club de France on 2 December 1934. Among the musicians whom the Hot Club presented here were Garland Wilson, Bill Coleman, Benny Carter, and Eddie"
"influenced by the flamenco guitar of Spanish gypsies and the violin of Hungarian gypsies. In the 1930s, he formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, consisting of three acoustic guitars, a violin, and a double bass. He toured the U.S. in 1946 with Duke Ellington. The gypsy jazz tradition has a small but loyal following that continued in the work of the Ferré family, the Schmitt family, Angelo Debarre, Christian Escoudé, Fapy Lafertin, Biréli Lagrène, Jon Larsen, Jimmy Rosenberg, and Stephane Wrembel. Playing an unamplified archtop guitar is feasible for rhythm guitar accompaniment in some small groups playing"
"guitar at the Cultural Arts Center. Early in his career, he went to used record stores to buy albums by musicians whose work he didn't know, so that he could study their music. In 1987, when he was 23, he formed the Hot Club Quintet, named after the Quintette du Hot Club de France. In the early 1990s, he was in New York City, playing in groups with Max Morath, Andy Stein, Herman Foster, Joe Ascione, and tuba player Sam Pilafian. He formed the Concord Jazz Collective with veteran guitarists Howard Alden and Jimmy Bruno. The roster of musicians he"
"The Bob Shots from Liege, with Toots Thielemans as a guitarist. Some of the best jazz musicians in Belgium at one time played in this band: the talented flautist and saxophonist Bobby Jaspar, saxophonist Jacques Pelzer and guitarist René Thomas. Bobby Jaspar was later influenced by musicians like Stan Getz and 'converted' to the cool jazz school. In his short career (he died at the age of 37) he played with such greats as Chet Baker, Kenny Burrell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Donald Byrd. In 1934 the Belgian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt formed the quintet Hot Club de France"
"and Roger Chaput on guitar. In 1937, American jazz singer Adelaide Hall and her husband Bert Hicks opened the nightclub La Grosse Pomme in Montmartre. She entertained nightly and hired the Quintette as one of the house bands. Also in the neighborhood was the artistic salon of R-26, at which Grappelli and Reinhardt performed regularly. For the first three decades of his musical career, Grappelli was billed ""Stéphane Grappelly"", a Gallicized form of his name. He took back the Italian spelling of his last name, he said, to keep people from pronouncing his surname ""Grappell-eye"". The Quintette du Hot Club"
"Toulon. Vola invited them to play with his band. Violinist Stéphane Grappelli and guitarist Roger Chaput were members of Vola's jazz ensemble. Vola later left the Quintette but eventually rejoined. Louis Vola Louis Vola (La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, 6 July 1902 – 15 August 1990, Paris), was a French double-bassist known for his work with the Quintette du Hot Club de France. He is the godfather of guitarist Francois Vola. As well as the Hot Club de France, Vola played bass for Ray Ventura, Duke Ellington and singer Charles Trenet. He was also an accomplished accordionist. In 1934 he was a"
"in 1932. The first famous French jazz group, the ""Quintette de Hot Club"". was formed in 1934; its members were Django Reinhardt, his brother Joseph, Stephane Grapelli, Louis Vola and Roger Chaput. They became the most famous jazz ensemble in France, touring Europe and eventually to the United States. The singer Mistinguett made her debut the Casino de Paris in 1895 and continued to appear regularly in the 1920s and 1930s at the Folies Bergère, Moulin Rouge and Eldorado. Her risqué routines captivated Paris, and she became one of the most highly-paid and popular French entertainers of her time. The"
"Louis Armstrong gave two important concerts in this hall; the concerts were held on 9 and 10 November 1934. It is to these performances that Panassie devotes an entire chapter of his ""Douze annees de jazz."" The Hot Club organized tours for several visiting American musicians; Earl Hines' tour of France in the 1960s was organized through the regional Hot Club affiliate branches. During the 1960s, the Club also organized tours for Bill Harris, the blues pianist Memphis Slim, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The Quintette du Hot Club de France was founded with the help of Pierre Nourry and, later,"
"absence of brass lead instruments and drums being a novelty in the jazz context, as well as the use of the double bass, which had taken over from the sousaphone to play bass lines; the absence of drums was compensated for by a highly rhythmic style of guitar accompaniment called ""la pompe"" which supplied both rhythm and harmonic structure for the soloists. Gypsy jazz can be performed on guitars alone with or without double bass. But in the Quintette du Hot Club de France, solo work alternated between Reinhardt on guitar and jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Later versions of the"
"and Grappelli remaining the sole constants. In 1937, the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall opened a nightclub in Montmartre along with her husband Bert Hicks and called it 'La Grosse Pomme.' She entertained there nightly and hired the Quintette du Hot Club de France as one of the house bands at the club. As World War II broke out in September 1939, the Quintette was on a concert tour of England. Reinhardt, who spoke virtually no English, immediately returned to France, where he thought he would feel safer than in the UK. Grappelli, meanwhile, stayed in England. Django continued using"
"du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. After the war he appeared on hundreds of recordings including sessions with Duke Ellington, jazz pianists Oscar Peterson and Claude Bolling, and jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Svend Asmussen (1916-2017) is a jazz violinist from Denmark who worked with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Duke Ellington. Asmussen was invited by Ellington to play on the ""Jazz Violin Session"" recording in 1963 with Stéphane Grappelli and Ray Nance. Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942) is a virtuoso French violinist and jazz composer. By the mid-1960s he"
"Hot Club de France on 20 October 1937 and the group performed there again in March of the next year. The Salle Pleyel at 252 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore was the venue for several important jazz performances beginning in the years before World War II. The Quintette du Hot Club de France and several American artists, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway, performed there in the pre-war years. In 1949, 1952, and 1954 the Festival International de Jazz (popularly, the Paris Jazz Fair) organized by the Hot Club under the direction of Charles Delaunay was held in this hall."
"with more than one guitar (Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, and Reinhardt), including the first recording by the Quintette. In both years the great majority of their recordings featured a wide variety of horns, often in multiples, piano, and other instruments, but the all-string instrumentation is the one most often adopted by emulators of the Hot Club sound. Decca Records in the United States released three records of Quintette songs with Reinhardt on guitar, and one other, credited to ""Stephane Grappelli & His Hot 4 with Django Reinhardt"", in 1935. Reinhardt also played and recorded with many American jazz musicians, such"
"the birth of regional Hot Clubs, among others. This amateur organization played an important role in the diffusion and discovery of jazz in France, and copycat organizations sprang up across Europe to spread the music in countries like Norway and Britain. At the time the Hot Club began promoting concerts for the Quintette du Hot Club de France, Charles Delaunay was the Secretary General of the club and Hugues Panassie was the President; these men often occupied different top positions amongst the heads of the group, but which roles each filled during which time period is hard to determine strictly"
"that time as well, so Cantrell decided to have DeGarmo have a go at it. Chris DeGarmo Christopher Lee DeGarmo (born June 14, 1963) is an American heavy metal and hard rock guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a lead and rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter in the progressive metal band Queensrÿche from their formation in 1980 until 1998, and with whom he played during their most commercially successful period. He briefly returned for collaborations in 2003 and 2007. DeGarmo was a member of Jerry Cantrell's band during his 1998 solo tour, and also contributed to his"
"Bernard Jean Bernard Jean (born 21 September 1948 in Jonquière, Quebec (now Saguenay, Quebec)) is a Canadian oboist, english horn player, conductor, and music educator. He has held principal oboist positions with several important Canadian orchestras, including the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. In 1972 he co-founded the Quebec Woodwind Quintet; a group he played and recorded with for the next 15 years. In 1987 he founded the St Louis de France Ensemble, a group which he has conducted and recorded works by Caplet, Constant, Milhaud, and Patch. He has also performed as a soloist with the"
"Éric Lapointe (singer) Éric Lapointe (born 28 September 1969) is a francophone lead singer and guitarist for his eponymous band. His band is characterized by a heavy metal style containing elements of punk, grunge, pop and hard rock from guitarist Stéphane Dufour's riffs. Lapointe has released eight studio albums, three compilation albums, and two live albums. He is currently the most successful male music artist in French Canadian history in terms of sales, having sold more than one million total discs. He has also made appearances on film. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lapointe is the eldest of three children;"
"1 hits on the Quebec charts, which were either on Radio Energie network, Montreal's Francophone station CKOI, the Rock Détente network, or MusiquePlus: Éric Lapointe (singer) Éric Lapointe (born 28 September 1969) is a francophone lead singer and guitarist for his eponymous band. His band is characterized by a heavy metal style containing elements of punk, grunge, pop and hard rock from guitarist Stéphane Dufour's riffs. Lapointe has released eight studio albums, three compilation albums, and two live albums. He is currently the most successful male music artist in French Canadian history in terms of sales, having sold more than"
"Henry Vestine Henry Charles Vestine (December 25, 1944 – October 20, 1997) a.k.a. ""The Sunflower"", was an American guitar player known mainly as a member of the band Canned Heat. He was with the group from its start in 1966 to July 1969. In later years he played in local bands but occasionally returned to Canned Heat for a few tours and recordings. In 2003 Vestine was ranked 77th in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine list of the ""100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"". Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, Vestine was the only son of Harry and Lois Vestine. His father was"
"group in 1987 and from 1989 to 1991 was the director of Orchestre National de Jazz. In the 1990s he led the octet La Nouvelle-Orleans and the quartet Monsieur Claude, and accompanied Elise Caron and Sylvie Cobo among others. Claude Barthélemy (musician) Claude Barthélemy (born August 22, 1956 in St. Denis) is a French jazz guitarist. Barthélemy started playing guitar when he was fourteen years old. He began playing with Michel Portal's ensemble, Unit, in 1978, and soon after worked with Aldo Romano, Stu Martin, and Gérard Marais. He assembled his own trio with Jacques Mahieux and Jean-Luc Ponthieux in"
"The Palms, and The Deaf Club. Gammage moved to New York City in the early 1980s, and formed post-punk rock band Certain General with singer Parker Dulany and B-Girls (band) drummer Marcy Saddy. The group soon gained a large following on the East Coast and later toured Europe, enjoying considerable success. Gammage played lead guitar, harmonica, and co-wrote many of the songs on the band’s best selling album ""November’s Heat"" (1984). The record won many accolades in Europe including ""French rock album of the year 1985"" from the Parisian newspaper ""Libération"". Gammage has continued to tour and record with Certain"
"Andre Persiany and Alain Jean-Marie as members. He died in Paris in 1974. Robert Mavounzy Robert Mavounzy (1917–1974) was a Guadeloupean reedist. Mavounzy was born in Colón, Panama, but his family moved to Guadeloupe when he was eleven years old. He moved to France in 1930, where he played with Alexandre Stellio for several years. In the late 1930s he played with Bill Coleman and other touring Americans, and led an ensemble at the club La Cigale. Adept on both clarinet and saxophone, Mavounzy recorded in the 1940s with Django Reinhardt, Harry Cooper, and the Ensemble Swing du Hot Club"
"his pieces with the North Carolina's Western Piedmont Symphony. In 1998 Vola moved back to France where he continues his musical career. Vola plays on a Martin HD28V guitar. François Vola François Vola, guitarist and composer, was born in Nice, France, in 1953. He is a double national (France and USA). He is the godson of Louis Vola (bassist with Django Reinhardt's The Hot Club of France). He started playing guitar semi-pro at the age of 14. In 1974 at age 20, he moved to the US; studied bluegrass and swing and played in several bands. Vola played on several"
"recorded with Mark Egan, Peter Erskine, Jimmy Haslip, Mike Mainieri, Christian McBride, Peter White and Dave Valentin. George Benson called Antoine one of his favorite guitarists. Marc Antoine (musician) Marc Jean Roland Antoine Vouilloux (born 28 May 1963) known professionally as Marc Antoine, is a jazz guitarist from France. Marc Antoine was born Marc Jean Roland Antoine Vouilloux in Paris, Franceon 28 May 1963. His parents bought him his first guitar when he was 11 years old and he developed a passion for the instrument after watching a friend play. By the age of 13, his father was impressed by"
"bassoonist Simon Kovar and Louis Letellier; cellists Jean Belland and Roland Leduc; clarinetist Joseph Moretti; double bass players Roger Charbonneau and Anselme Fortier; flautists Hervé Baillargeon, René Le Roy, Arthur Lora, and Marcel Moyse; harpist Marcel Grandjany; horn players Harry Berv and Bernard Baker; pianists Lubka Kolessa, Fleurette Beauchamp, Jean Dansereau, Auguste Descarries, Yvonne Hubert, Arthur Letondal, Germaine Malépart, Isidor Philipp, and Edmond Trudel; oboists Harold Gomberg, Bruno Labate, and Michel Nazzi; organists Joseph Bonnet and George M. Brewer; percussionist Saul Goodman; trombonist Charles Gusikoff; and violinists Noël Brunet, Albert Chamberland, Camille Couture, Maurice Onderet, and Ethel Stark. Isabelle Delorme"
"early age, able to master the basics almost before they can hold a normal sized guitar in their hands. The Quintette du Hot Club de France played acoustically without a drummer, facilitating the use of the acoustic guitar as a lead instrument. Guitar and violin are still the main solo instruments, although clarinet, saxophone, mandolin, and accordion are sometimes used. The rhythm guitar is played using a distinct percussive technique, ""la pompe"", which essentially replaces the drums. Most gypsy jazz guitarists, lead and rhythm, play a version of the Selmer-Maccaferri guitar design favored by Reinhardt himself. Ensembles aim for an"
"1938), Michel Le Bris (born 1944), Guy Kopelowicz, Bruno Vincent, and Philippe Constantin (1944–1996). Beginning with Issue No. 647, November 2008, ""Jazz Hot"" went online. Panassié started ""La Revue Du Jazz"" : ""Organe Officiel Du Hot Club De France,"" in January 1949 (Issue Issue No. 1) (). He was editor-in-chief. ""Bulletin Du Hot Club De France"" was started January 1948 (, ). As of , the publication has endured years as the official magazine of the Hot Club of France. Greenwood Press Worldcat Fédération internationale des hot clubs.; Hot Club de France. Jazz Hot/Editions de L'Instant Jazz-Diffusion Unnamed publisher L'Annuaire"
"Frank Reckard Francis L. ""Frank"" Reckard is an American guitarist. He was part of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band from 1978 to 1989, and supported many other musical acts as a studio musician. After the Hot Band disbanded in the 1990s, he had a career as a attorney specializing in water law. He has been hailed as one of the ""unsung greats"" who played a ""crackling"" lead guitar. Reckard was born to Edgar and Susanna Reckard. He grew up in Claremont, California where his father served as a chaplain and a professor of the Claremont Colleges. He began playing guitar professionally"